Day 65: Returning Home

The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

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Did Jesus leave us when he ascended to heaven? Fr. Mark-Mary answers this question, leading us in a meditation on the certainty of Jesus’ perpetual presence with us in all times and places. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Ascension and we will be praying one Our Father, three Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars, the renewal, and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast.
0:08.5	We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary,
0:13.5	and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.8	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.4	This is Day 65.
0:20.5	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 3377777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features
0:38.1	built just for this podcast and also recordings with the full Rosary with myself and other Friars.
0:43.0	On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to
0:46.4	thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and
0:50.6	helps us to reach as many people as possible. If you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. The second glorious mystery
1:01.8	is the ascension. Luke chapter 24 versus 50 to 53. Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
1:16.4	While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped
1:23.3	him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and we're continually in the temple blessing God.
1:32.4	If I'm honest in my own time as somebody who has prayed again and again and again with the
1:39.4	ascension of our Lord and also someone who, preached about the ascension, walked with other
1:45.3	people. If I'm honest, it's one of my harder mysteries to really get, to really understand,
1:53.4	like, it's meaning. And it's a big deal. Like, the church holds the ascension of the Lord
1:58.4	at the highest of levels of feasts, right?
2:02.0	And the first image that comes to mind is from like this video I saw a number of months ago.
2:09.9	And there was somewhere in Europe, it might have been Ireland.
2:13.4	There was a young man who's probably 16 or 17 who is in the Olympics. And he's returning back
2:19.9	to school for the first time. What they did is they had all of the students lined up to welcome
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